Category: camping

After a late summer heat in September, our weather started to cool down a bit. With the help of friends, I got my Roof Top Tent back up the rack of the Jeepney and I started planning to take my boys up north to do some camping and enjoy the Fall Colors. I’ve pretty much circled…

Linus is done with the back to school shopping, and I got myself and my kids a back to school haircut as well. It’s Labor day and even though it’s barely a week past since we got back from our trip from the Philippines (jet lag!), we thought it would be nice to go out…

We enjoyed our stay at Mackinac Island. I am guessing we will be back even just for a day trip since it is quite a relaxing place. So relaxing that we are making a slow exit (that seems like the theme of this tour!) But for now we picked up the Jeepney and fortunately did…

Here’s the third installment of the Great Lakes Tour, and to spice it up, a youtube link covering the areas we covered here and Part 2 A drastic shift from our remote/dispersed camping, we are visiting the Mackinac Island and play a tourist. Or what I would call a tad bit expensive shower. Free…

We just spent two nights dispersed camping in the UP. Our goal was to scope out the scenery and that experience solidified our plan to setup a future trip focusing mostly on the UP. We certainly left confident and looking forward to a longer term boondocking. But for now, we left our Lake Superior camp…

In the previous post, I mentioned that we are planning a UP trip and originally planned to make it to Drummond Island. I made a last minute call and rerouted our plan to go south and visit LP (Lower Peninsula) and also hit the sandy beaches of Lake Michigan. All in all visiting the three…

Compared to Utah or Colorado, there is not a lot of information that you can gather about South Dakota’s Badlands/Buffalo Gap and the Blackhills when it comes to overlanding. I started digging and found few old trip reports from expeditionportal and everything I’ve seen looked promising. So it was kind of surprising that there was…